As one’s mentor often pined of “a love of history, whether real or contrived,” I’ve placed this in my most favorite screen scrapes directory and will probably read it again as I do Nomen Ludi.

τοτοτοῖ (tototoî)!
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.
Eukha’ristos eimi’. Kha’ris soi,
VoxAudi (Daren)

]]>By: Bill Beatyhttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1386634
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:21:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1386634Another of the same bent is the 1856 letter of Ernest Glitch to Michael Faraday. Glitch tells of his resonating copper-spiral lightning machine (Tesla coil) based upon a medieval alchemist woodcut: http://lateralscience.co.uk/tesla/glitesla.html His later letters to Faraday describe a pulse-jet powered aircraft fueled with ether vapor, a powerful light-beam generator based on Leyden-jar sparks in nitrogen, his production of odd spherical 60-atom carbon molecules, and his spiral accelerator of corpuscular effluvia (Victorian cyclotron)
]]>By: Iain Marckshttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1386243
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:09:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1386243mr. beschizza you’re scary good. also, i would wear that shirt.
]]>By: hpplacrahttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1386110
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:24:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1386110the illustration is EFFFFFing amazing!
]]>By: Finlay McCourthttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1386108
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:19:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1386108Unfortunately not, my naïveté just reared it’s head again. Genuine disappointment that there is not a fantastic new resource of letters on mid-period ancient mechanics.
]]>By: Rob Beschizzahttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385921
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:39:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385921No plans!
]]>By: zubenhttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385736
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:10:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385736Of lesser renown than the Great Library of Alexandria was the University of Rockall. It was there that the future of Western civilization would eventually graduate.
]]>By: Rob Beschizzahttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385570
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:05:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385570I did! Good idea.
]]>By: tubacathttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385550
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:55:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385550Beautiful — I had a chance to see the Antikythera in Athens two years ago, and imagining it in the company of a “big brother” generating poetry that could pass the Turing test is a hoot. Not that this is exactly wasted on Boingers, but do you have plans to publish this elsewhere, Rob?
]]>By: tarashttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385440
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:50:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385440 100% real bro.
]]>By: Max Wainerhttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385419
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:32:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385419OK, go ahead and count me among the clueless, but is this for real or is it a work of fiction?
]]>By: penguinchrishttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385413
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:20:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385413Rob, did you do the drawing? It’s funny and really neat… t-shirt material.
]]>By: noah djangohttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385339
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:22:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385339 ﾁｬｳ(･_･ 三･_･)ﾁｬｳ
]]>By: Tom Morganhttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385075
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:58:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385075Verisimilitude… the mark of true craft.
]]>By: Charles Matulachttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385074
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:57:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385074Ha! All the audio tracks played at the same time! I was opening tabs from my reader, and it took me forever to figure out which tab the cacophony of music was coming from!
]]>By: Finlay McCourthttp://boingboing.net/2012/04/02/antikythera.html#comment-1385049
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:02:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=152438#comment-1385049Is there any way to view these sources? Or could you provide links to other mentions of these letters? (Do the Ecole Nationale des Chatres, or the Centre for Hellenic studies have anything up about them?)
I do research on ancient Mechanics, have not heard about this, and would love to find out more…
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